@MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world • 11 months agoFirearms killed a record number of children in 2021, study findswww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square100fedilinkarrow-up1477arrow-down135file-text
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U.S. children and teens are more likely to die because of guns than car crashes, drug overdoses and cancer.
minus-square@traches@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish5•11 months agoYou can’t just remove cities from statistics for better numbers
minus-square@HelixDab2@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish6•11 months agoUh, well, you can, and do, remove clear outliers in other statistical sets.
minus-square@BURN@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•11 months agoNo, you normalize the data to account for the higher density of people. You can’t just ignore the 3 largest cities because they have more people or higher crime rates.
minus-square@AA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•11 months agoSure, we obviously have wrong data for 19 yo. Let’s just remove it from the data. And those three cities, clear outliers, 3 cities won’t affect the data noticeably anyway
You can’t just remove cities from statistics for better numbers
Uh, well, you can, and do, remove clear outliers in other statistical sets.
No, you normalize the data to account for the higher density of people.
You can’t just ignore the 3 largest cities because they have more people or higher crime rates.
Sure, we obviously have wrong data for 19 yo. Let’s just remove it from the data. And those three cities, clear outliers, 3 cities won’t affect the data noticeably anyway